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We consider an abstraction of computational security in password protected systems where a user draws a secret string of given length with i.i.d. characters from a finite alphabet, and an adversary would like to identify the secret string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Arman Rezaee , Ahmad Beirami , Ali Makhdoumi , Muriel Medard , Ken Duffy

Self-testing is the task where spatially separated Alice and Bob cooperate to deduce the inner workings of untrusted quantum devices by interacting with them in a classical manner. We examine the task above where Alice and Bob do not trust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Akshay Bansal , Atul Singh Arora , Thomas Van Himbeeck , Jamie Sikora

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

Assessing uncertainty is an important step towards ensuring the safety and reliability of machine learning systems. Existing uncertainty estimation techniques may fail when their modeling assumptions are not met, e.g. when the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Volodymyr Kuleshov , Stefano Ermon

Performing a quantum measurement yields two different results: a classical outcome drawn from a probability distribution, according to Born's rule, and a quantum outcome corresponding to the post-measurement state. Quantum devices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Andrés Muñoz-Moller , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Teiko Heinosaari

Passwords remain one of the most common methods for securing sensitive data in the digital age. However, weak password choices continue to pose significant risks to data security and privacy. This study aims to solve the problem by focusing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pappu Jha , Hanzla Hamid , Oluseyi Olukola , Ashim Dahal , Nick Rahimi

In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework to construct matching algorithms for any biometric authentication systems. Conventional matching algorithms are not necessarily secure against strong intentional impersonation attacks such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-04-09 Manabu Inuma , Akira Otsuka , Hideki Imai

Most machine learning models are validated and tested on fixed datasets. This can give an incomplete picture of the capabilities and weaknesses of the model. Such weaknesses can be revealed at test time in the real world. The risks involved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Nataniel Ruiz , Adam Kortylewski , Weichao Qiu , Cihang Xie , Sarah Adel Bargal , Alan Yuille , Stan Sclaroff

While person Re-identification (Re-ID) has progressed rapidly due to its wide real-world applications, it also causes severe risks of leaking personal information from training data. Thus, this paper focuses on quantifying this risk by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Junyao Gao , Xinyang Jiang , Huishuai Zhang , Yifan Yang , Shuguang Dou , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao , Cheng Deng , Cairong Zhao

Machine unlearning, where users can request the deletion of a forget dataset, is becoming increasingly important because of numerous privacy regulations. Initial works on ``exact'' unlearning (e.g., retraining) incur large computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny , Hari Sundaram , Varun Chandrasekaran

Users like sharing personal photos with others through social media. At the same time, they might want to make automatic identification in such photos difficult or even impossible. Classic obfuscation methods such as blurring are not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Seong Joon Oh , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: minor perturbations to input samples intended to deliberately cause misclassification. While an obvious security threat, adversarial examples yield as well insights about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kathrin Grosse , David Pfaff , Michael Thomas Smith , Michael Backes

This work studies anomaly detection under differential privacy (DP) with Gaussian perturbation using both statistical and information-theoretic tools. In our setting, the adversary aims to modify the content of a statistical dataset by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ayse Unsal , Melek Onen

We study the membership inference (MI) attack against classifiers, where the attacker's goal is to determine whether a data instance was used for training the classifier. Through systematic cataloging of existing MI attacks and extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jiacheng Li , Ninghui Li , Bruno Ribeiro

When convoking privacy, group membership verification checks if a biometric trait corresponds to one member of a group without revealing the identity of that member. Similarly, group membership identification states which group the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Marzieh Gheisari , Teddy Furon , Laurent Amsaleg

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates employing privacy-preserving techniques to protect users' sensitive information. Even when user traces are anonymized, statistical matching can be employed to infer sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Nazanin Takbiri , Ramin Soltani , Dennis L. Goeckel , Amir Houmansadr , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Speaker identification systems are deployed in diverse environments, often different from the lab conditions on which they are trained and tested. In this paper, first, we show the problem of generalization using fixed thresholds (computed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Ashutosh Chaubey , Sparsh Sinha , Susmita Ghose

In an adversarial environment, a hostile player performing a task may behave like a non-hostile one in order not to reveal its identity to an opponent. To model such a scenario, we define identity concealment games: zero-sum stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mustafa O. Karabag , Melkior Ornik , Ufuk Topcu

In this paper, we discuss coding theorems on a $(2, 2)$--threshold scheme in the presence of an opponent who impersonates one of the two shareholders in an asymptotic setup. We consider a situation where $n$ secrets $S^n$ from a memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Mitsugu Iwamoto , Hiroki Koga , Hirosuke Yamamoto

Speaker verification, as a biometric authentication mechanism, has been widely used due to the pervasiveness of voice control on smart devices. However, the task of "in-the-wild" speaker verification is still challenging, considering the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jianwei Tai , Xiaoqi Jia , Qingjia Huang , Weijuan Zhang , Haichao Du , Shengzhi Zhang